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When the former coalition members failed to agree on how to regroup. Rumor and his Christian Democrats were left operating a minority one-party, or monocolore, government. After a terrorist bomb killed 16 people in a Milan bank last December, Rumor decided that it was time to share responsibility with a few other parties. What he thought would be a simple bit of Cabinetmaking, however, turned into an exercise in frustration...
...murderers could have been members of one of the pro-Makarios secret armies on the island. They could have been Greek officers in Cyprus' National Guard, still bristling over the Papadopoulos affair. Or they might have been Cypriots of the extremist National Front, which has been waging a terrorist campaign to encourage enosis, or union with Greece, rather than the in dependence that both Georgadjis and the archbishop considered more feasible...
...Angry Swiss. The commercial airline pilots, long victimized by Cuban hijackers as well as Arab gunmen, were particularly upset. In London, the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations promised that unless measures were taken to end terrorist attacks, it might call out its 45,000 pilot members and ground commercial airlines all over the world. International airline executives, meanwhile, called an emergency meeting in Paris for this week to discuss ways of curbing the terrorism...
Terror in the sky was only one of Israel's worries last week. Terror on the ground, particularly in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River, also took a heavy toll. Near Hebron on the West Bank, Arab terrorists ambushed a busload of Americans on a tour of holy places, killing a 31-year-old housewife and wounding two other women. In the town of Gaza, two grenades intended for Israelis landed amidst Arabs. All told, terrorist attacks killed three and wounded 51. On the battle line, by contrast, two Israeli soldiers died...
...another AUA flight to Tel Aviv) had been buffeted by a similar explosion that tore a hole in its fuselage. Luckily, the Austrian's pilot was able to land safely at Frankfurt, where experts traced the explosion to a mailbag labeled for Israel. In Amman, an obscure Arab terrorist organization called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command promptly bragged that it had blown up the Swiss plane because Israeli officials-were aboard...